# Recomend some 'realistic' science fiction books **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recomend-some-realistic-science-fiction-books/529442 "2010-02-18T04:27:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recomend-some-realistic-science-fiction-books/529442/81 "2010-02-23T02:55:20Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Even better (for the OP’s stated fields of interest): [_Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next 50 Years._](http://www.amazon.com/Tomorrow-Now-Envisioning-Next-Years/dp/0812969766/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266880230&sr=8-1) Oooh - thanks! Added to my wish list. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recomend-some-realistic-science-fiction-books/529442/82 "2010-02-23T03:08:22Z")
Quoth **md2000** : > [@](#): > > Beyond This Horizon, 1948 (initially serialized in 1942, and at that time credited to Anson MacDonald) > … > Time for the Stars, 1956 \* > … > Methuselah’s Children, 1958 (originally a serialized short story in 1941) > … > Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961 – Hugo Award, 1962 [5], (republished at the original greater length in 1991) > … > Glory Road, 1963—Hugo Award nominee, 1964 [6] > … > The Robots of Dawn (1983), ISBN 0-553-29949-2 (third Elijah Baley SF-crime novel) > Robots and Empire (1985) ISBN 978-0-586-06200-5 (sequel to the Elijah Baley trilogy) > … > Pebble in the Sky (1950), ISBN 0-553-29342-7 > The Stars, Like Dust (1951), ISBN 0-553-29343-5 > … > Foundation and Empire (1952), ISBN 0-553-29337-0 > Second Foundation (1953), ISBN 0-553-29336-2 > … > Niven and Pournelle - Most of Nivens known space stuff - a bit smarmy, but a good read. The one I would recommend is “A Gift From Earth”; All of these contain telepathy or other magic. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanTigerTamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@SuntanTigerTamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanTigerTamer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recomend-some-realistic-science-fiction-books/529442/83 "2010-02-23T08:16:33Z")
Do the Hyperion book by Dan Simmons not count, somehow, or did I miss their mention? As someone who doesn’t read a lot of sci-fi, I fell completely in love with every one of Simmon’s Hyperion books, as well as Haldeman’s Forever War, Forever Peace, and Forever Free. I couldn’t recommend all of them enough. ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recomend-some-realistic-science-fiction-books/529442/84 "2010-02-25T18:54:33Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Quoth **md2000** :All of these contain telepathy or other magic. Good catch. I thought you were wrong about _The Stars, Like Dust_ until I remembered the Visi-Sonor. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9a140/32.png) [@foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolscap)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recomend-some-realistic-science-fiction-books/529442/85 "2010-03-06T06:01:24Z")
Almost any Sector General stories by Doc White.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2010, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recomend-some-realistic-science-fiction-books/529442/86 "2010-03-06T07:12:41Z")
Lots of telepathy in the Sector General universe. Lots of fun stories though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recomend-some-realistic-science-fiction-books/529442.md?page=4)